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All this escalation talk reminds me of all the Marijuana leads to harder drugs talk in the mid 80's.
I'm still waiting to get a sudden urge to shoot some heroin into my eyeball.
Well, I have been waiting for over 30 years, so I think you'll have to wait a long time...
I work on the following platforms on a daily basis:
- x86
- SPARC
- PARISC
- Alpha (yes, they are still out there)
- IBM servers, both PPC and mainframes (not sure about the CPU types)
- Itanium
I don't know about you, but I prefer not to be associated with people or companies that cheat, steal and lie. SCO does all of it and it's reputation... sorry scrap that, they don't have a reputation, they are just criminals.
Come to think about it, this country has a long history of supporting companies that cheat, steal and lie, so maybe SCO will become a hero someday, crazy as it may sound, but in USA this is a real possibility based on corporate morality or rather lack thereof.
Well, first of all, not everyone is a sysadmin or aprogrammer.
My job is to support analysts internally and to handle the big escalations we get (my team that is, not just me personally) and many days there can go several hours between each task, but when the shit hits the fan, I (or my team) am expected to save the companies ass and I don't have count of how many million dollar customers I have saved. I have no problems doing nothing at times, nor do my company since it takes at least 5-10 years to build the knowledge and understanding and analytical skill not to mention the people skill needed in the job and hence they do anything in their power to retain the top people, which suites me fine. It has taken many years to get to this level and I enjoy it tremendously!
Since I now live in USA, I celebrate 2 labor days, May 1st and this year, Sep 5th.
Typical for USA to create it's own labor day, I guess the international workers day is not good enough or too communistic for USC (United States of Corporations)...
When i arrived on this insignificant planet a few decades ago I quickly understood the flaws, alas, I'm stuck for now, trying to finish my mission before returning home.
You humans are a strange animal. You all are worshipping some strange fantasy fiugures that you belive control your life and will reward or punish you after death! Most of the civilizations of the Universe have left this caveman attitude several million years ago.
And what is with those paper slips you call money that you animals kill each other for? I mean it's not like there is a shortage on paper on thsi planet, esp with speed you destroy the forests, the lungs of the planets and as far as I know, the smal green bills do not breath!
And technology... Oh my! Where do I start? When I arrived I felt like a time-traveller, placed millions of years into the past, I really had a problem adjusting to the inferior way of living, but I have survived, barely!
My last report back home mainly consisted of an analysis why a certain group of animals on this planet was so set on killing each other for no reason. I still don't understand the hatred ssome animals show for other animals, esp the animals with darker skin. Strange planet.... Very strange!
I've been using USENET for ages and have 1 commercial server I pay for in addition to my ISP's and I have *NEVER* any problems with completition, ever! Spend $15/month and you have access to a good commercial server.
I have on various occasions used P2P and Bittorrent and all I can say is that it is incredibly unreliable and extremly slow. P2P is the most flawed protocol ever devised for the net.
Why are people using the slow P2P systems that leave you open to all kinds of crap. Why not use good old USENET. Music, videos, pr0n.. whatever you want and whatever pervertion you fancy today is covered in great detail on USENET and I have so far not seen RIAA/MPAA take on USENET.
If you are on a cable-modem, expect max download speeds from your local ISP's newsserver, else subscribe (typical $15/month unlimited download and long retention) to a decent commercial newsserver and get a newsreader who can combine multiple servers to ensure completition.
I guess it's just us old-timers that use USENET these days, it was what was the killer app when I got on the net back in the 80's along with email and ftp and gopher.
Yes, cell phone prizing is a legalized scam set in system and protected legally. It's basically the phone companies pandoras box financially. Only in USA are companies valued higher than it's citizenz and there is virtually no limit for what they can do and get away with. Disgusting.
USA is both a republic (that is a statesform) and a democracy (that is a political state)
There is no contradiction between beeing a republic and beeing a democracy.
If the MySQL people think they are going to make money by partnering with SCO, they need a new leadership.
The judgment behind this decision says a lot about the company and I woukld never touch its products, no matter how good they are supposed to be.
IMHO making a partnership with SCO is a career killer.
me: I see you were CEO of MySQL?
CEO: yes
me: And you were the force behind the partnering deal with SCO?
CEO: Yes
me: Thank you for your interest in the position, but we don't need CEO's with flawed busniess logic. Next!
I'd rather forget him quickly, may he rest in peace. He was a chief justice who did an huge amount of work to bring this country so far to the right that it is going to take many many decades to bring USA into the 21st century. Add to that that the imbecile in the White House now gets to pick another buddy to mess up the supreme court for decades to come.
Rehnquist death could not have come at a worse time. I was hoping he would live through the current presidency because no matter who follows Bush as president, they have to be better than him. Dubya is *THE* worst president USA has had.
Unfortunatly, this country is racing towards becoming a 3rd world country as fast as it can. Latest proof came this week, thanks to Katrina.
The whole supreme court system in USA is flawed, it's horrible appointment procedure results in political judges who decide based on their own party politics and not based on law and reason. Add to that the justices are appointed for life by a president who is not responsible to anyone. There is not a world leader who are more inaccessible and not repsonsible to anyone than in the US. When was the last time the president met with a panel of reporters in prime time to discuss status quo? Never happened!
What USA need more than anything is a new revolution!
MS can hire as many lawyers they want, not going to do them much good in the Norwegian justice system. Norway has a good, civilized and modern justice system that doesn't give corporations any more weight than regular Joe. Money is not going to buy them much in the Norwegian justice system, had we been talking about an American court, it would have been a different tune.
Huh? What have you been smoking? I work for a corp with 40000+ employees and Mac's aren't even on the horizon. It's a horrible machine with a horrible OS. If anyone told me I had to work on a Mac, I would quit.
Reading this thread has been fun, esp seeing all the Apple fanbois going gaga over the tests. When you need to defend an obviously flawed design, both hardware and software wise in order to justify paying an arm and a leg for a crappy product, I can only shake my head in amusement.
I don't care about building my own PVR, it's not in my gate of interest. A prebuilt device like this is very much of interest to me and I have no problems shelling out $2100 for such a gadget to go with my $8000 HD plasma TV and my $1500 Home theater system.
Some of us are more interested in making money than to fiddle around with an old PC and some crappy software that may or may not work after you have spendt 200+ hours debugging shitty OSS code. No thanks! $2100 is more than worth it to me.
Because Americans go insane over the thought that their tax money is beeing used to explore space, but at the same time they approve 10-20 times what space exploration costs to fight a useless war. Go figure!
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Because of my knowledge, but I understand from your... shall we say... seemingly hateful response in few words, that you are lacking said skills.
You see, there are people outside USA that are just as smart if not smarter than you. Since you don't cut it, I understand your sour comment.
Huh?
I work on the following platforms on a daily basis:
- x86
- SPARC
- PARISC
- Alpha (yes, they are still out there)
- IBM servers, both PPC and mainframes (not sure about the CPU types)
- Itanium
But I guess that is not enough diversity for you?
I don't know about you, but I prefer not to be associated with people or companies that cheat, steal and lie. SCO does all of it and it's reputation... sorry scrap that, they don't have a reputation, they are just criminals.
Come to think about it, this country has a long history of supporting companies that cheat, steal and lie, so maybe SCO will become a hero someday, crazy as it may sound, but in USA this is a real possibility based on corporate morality or rather lack thereof.
Well, first of all, not everyone is a sysadmin or aprogrammer.
My job is to support analysts internally and to handle the big escalations we get (my team that is, not just me personally) and many days there can go several hours between each task, but when the shit hits the fan, I (or my team) am expected to save the companies ass and I don't have count of how many million dollar customers I have saved. I have no problems doing nothing at times, nor do my company since it takes at least 5-10 years to build the knowledge and understanding and analytical skill not to mention the people skill needed in the job and hence they do anything in their power to retain the top people, which suites me fine. It has taken many years to get to this level and I enjoy it tremendously!
Since I now live in USA, I celebrate 2 labor days, May 1st and this year, Sep 5th.
Typical for USA to create it's own labor day, I guess the international workers day is not good enough or too communistic for USC (United States of Corporations)...
Not for Intel, no, no way. Too big and as far as i see, not even AMD is a nail in that coffin and I use AMD64 chips on all my machines.
:)
Itanium is a horrible CPU, I have no lost love for this beast. I've been waiting for this to happen and I'm happy!
When i arrived on this insignificant planet a few decades ago I quickly understood the flaws, alas, I'm stuck for now, trying to finish my mission before returning home.
You humans are a strange animal. You all are worshipping some strange fantasy fiugures that you belive control your life and will reward or punish you after death! Most of the civilizations of the Universe have left this caveman attitude several million years ago.
And what is with those paper slips you call money that you animals kill each other for? I mean it's not like there is a shortage on paper on thsi planet, esp with speed you destroy the forests, the lungs of the planets and as far as I know, the smal green bills do not breath!
And technology... Oh my! Where do I start? When I arrived I felt like a time-traveller, placed millions of years into the past, I really had a problem adjusting to the inferior way of living, but I have survived, barely!
My last report back home mainly consisted of an analysis why a certain group of animals on this planet was so set on killing each other for no reason. I still don't understand the hatred ssome animals show for other animals, esp the animals with darker skin. Strange planet.... Very strange!
That is uneducated BS to say the least.
I've been using USENET for ages and have 1 commercial server I pay for in addition to my ISP's and I have *NEVER* any problems with completition, ever! Spend $15/month and you have access to a good commercial server.
I have on various occasions used P2P and Bittorrent and all I can say is that it is incredibly unreliable and extremly slow. P2P is the most flawed protocol ever devised for the net.
Why are people using the slow P2P systems that leave you open to all kinds of crap. Why not use good old USENET. Music, videos, pr0n.. whatever you want and whatever pervertion you fancy today is covered in great detail on USENET and I have so far not seen RIAA/MPAA take on USENET.
If you are on a cable-modem, expect max download speeds from your local ISP's newsserver, else subscribe (typical $15/month unlimited download and long retention) to a decent commercial newsserver and get a newsreader who can combine multiple servers to ensure completition.
I guess it's just us old-timers that use USENET these days, it was what was the killer app when I got on the net back in the 80's along with email and ftp and gopher.
Yes, cell phone prizing is a legalized scam set in system and protected legally. It's basically the phone companies pandoras box financially. Only in USA are companies valued higher than it's citizenz and there is virtually no limit for what they can do and get away with. Disgusting.
Just stand in front of the fan, be careful not to insert pecker into fan as the result will be sliced ballony!
If the justice systemn in USA was not so medival and insane, I would have laughed at this ruling, but alas it's true in all it's insanity.
*sigh*
USA is both a republic (that is a statesform) and a democracy (that is a political state)
There is no contradiction between beeing a republic and beeing a democracy.
If the MySQL people think they are going to make money by partnering with SCO, they need a new leadership.
The judgment behind this decision says a lot about the company and I woukld never touch its products, no matter how good they are supposed to be.
IMHO making a partnership with SCO is a career killer.
me: I see you were CEO of MySQL?
CEO: yes
me: And you were the force behind the partnering deal with SCO?
CEO: Yes
me: Thank you for your interest in the position, but we don't need CEO's with flawed busniess logic. Next!
I'd rather forget him quickly, may he rest in peace. He was a chief justice who did an huge amount of work to bring this country so far to the right that it is going to take many many decades to bring USA into the 21st century. Add to that that the imbecile in the White House now gets to pick another buddy to mess up the supreme court for decades to come.
Rehnquist death could not have come at a worse time. I was hoping he would live through the current presidency because no matter who follows Bush as president, they have to be better than him. Dubya is *THE* worst president USA has had.
Unfortunatly, this country is racing towards becoming a 3rd world country as fast as it can. Latest proof came this week, thanks to Katrina.
The whole supreme court system in USA is flawed, it's horrible appointment procedure results in political judges who decide based on their own party politics and not based on law and reason. Add to that the justices are appointed for life by a president who is not responsible to anyone. There is not a world leader who are more inaccessible and not repsonsible to anyone than in the US. When was the last time the president met with a panel of reporters in prime time to discuss status quo? Never happened!
What USA need more than anything is a new revolution!
Oh shit! That *WAS* funny! Just wish I had modpoints!
MS can hire as many lawyers they want, not going to do them much good in the Norwegian justice system. Norway has a good, civilized and modern justice system that doesn't give corporations any more weight than regular Joe. Money is not going to buy them much in the Norwegian justice system, had we been talking about an American court, it would have been a different tune.
Reading this thread has been fun, esp seeing all the Apple fanbois going gaga over the tests. When you need to defend an obviously flawed design, both hardware and software wise in order to justify paying an arm and a leg for a crappy product, I can only shake my head in amusement.
I never smoke when I drive because the ozone can't kill off the smell of high quality ehh... *herb*...
Sounds to me like SkyNet.... Damn, some prophets are true prophets!
After watching "Midnight Express" I think most people would prefer US prisons.
*sigh*
I don't care about building my own PVR, it's not in my gate of interest. A prebuilt device like this is very much of interest to me and I have no problems shelling out $2100 for such a gadget to go with my $8000 HD plasma TV and my $1500 Home theater system.
Some of us are more interested in making money than to fiddle around with an old PC and some crappy software that may or may not work after you have spendt 200+ hours debugging shitty OSS code. No thanks! $2100 is more than worth it to me.
Because Americans go insane over the thought that their tax money is beeing used to explore space, but at the same time they approve 10-20 times what space exploration costs to fight a useless war. Go figure!
Where do I sign up?